Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Blowout Sale! Save 56% on the Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Picador USA at Diseasome. Hurry! Limited time offer. Offer valid only while supplies last. In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the

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In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is―uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.

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